Tel Aviv

Last weekend we spent the day exploring Tel Aviv-Yafo. Here are some videos from the day.

There are more videos to come, plus an article about the rest of the day. It was a great one, seriously.

You'll notice that these are a) shorter than many of the recent videos and b) better quality than most. I took them with my phone camera without using QIK for streaming straight to the Web. The advantages of this are that it uses less battery and the video quality is much better. The major disadvantage is that I only have so much space on my cell phone memory card. Also, for those who see these videos as they happen through Qik, there's basically nothing for them to see and no way to send me messages while I do the video. Let me know, though, what you think. Should I just forget about the QIK stuff? Or should I keep doing live streaming videos in addition to these compilation blog entries?

Our original intention had been to head down South to a nice dark place to watch the Perseid meteor shower, but we left the ice rink (where I coach) a little late, and so we missed the last ride from the last train station to where we meant to go. Soooo... I made up for it to my sprog-man by making a couple of videos with him and then going out for dinner at the mall.

The quality of these videos is really choppy. The dark makes it even worse than usual, sorry.

Three videos of my daughter and I having fun at the Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv. Beautiful architecture, A couple of sculptures, and a waterfall in a parking lot. Then we go out to our bus stop.

Once again, I'm out on a Friday, so there aren't a lot of people or traffic. I say, I don't know why I'm always taking videos of empty malls on Fridays, but I do know. It's cuz I don't have any time to do these during the week when I'm at work. C'est la vie.

This video is of some guys playing cricket at the National Sport Center in Tel Aviv on a Friday afternoon.